In 1997, Norway became the first country to make statutory provision for schools of music and arts requiring every municipality to run such a school. Based on an explicit vision of "schools of music and arts for everyone," the aim is to provide music education for all children, regardless of social and economic background. Despite their…

Queer is difficult to pin down conceptually; it is willfully disruptive, intentionally destabilizing everything from identity to knowledge to politics to power. The intent of this article is to illuminate some of the ways teacher educators are conceptually connecting queer to transgender identities and experiences in their classroom curriculum and…

Existing political socialization studies assert that one's important political attitudes are shaped early in life. However, these studies have difficulty explaining why China has greatly reduced Marxist political education in basic education in recent years, while enhancing it at the college level. This article compares 43 Economics students and…

This article theorizes on the role of school subjects, especially history, in multicultural and intercultural education, arguing that to ensure intercultural learning there is a need to integrate these curricular intentions in subject teaching. However, the epistemological reorganization that such integration involves will challenge both a…

Background/Context: Studio-based courses--the primary approach in design education--have been viewed as effective environments for learning. This study uses an ecological approach to explore how the studio environment creates opportunities for social interaction through immersive studies of studio learning. Purpose/Objective/Research…

To address, in teacher education, the prevention of gender violence is crucial to its eradication. In this work we seek to understand how the Brazilian and international debates on violence against women are taking place in teacher education. In this sense, we analyze the theoretical advance over the last seven years of a course in the Pedagoy…

Following Trent, J. [2014. "Innovation as Identity Construction in Language Teaching and Learning: Case Studies from Hong Kong." "Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching" 8 (1): 56-78], the present study used identity as the unit of analysis for examining three foreign language student teachers' experiences with…

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine how two faculty integrate equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice (EDISJ) within their work with doctoral education at an AAU institution within two different disciplines. Due to the understanding that doctoral students imitate and emulate behaviors and values of close advisers,…

Variation in how faculty in disparate theory-based academic environments design and structure their undergraduate courses to promote student learning in 12 areas was examined. The findings suggest that faculty create distinctive academic environments that reinforce and reward their preferred patterns of student competencies in a manner consistent…

Describes a lecture/discussion activity in which students complete a kinship diagram and discuss the sociological concepts of status, norm, and role. Contends that students enjoy the activity and learn that social roles are determined by a set of expectations for appropriate and inappropriate behavior. Includes a model of the kinship diagram. (CFR)

Examined are inadequacies of the eclectic or contextualist classroom principle, defined as a philosophy of art education which selects scholarly art content offerings related to the production, criticism, and history of art as it relates to the school environment or context present in a particular time and place. (RM)

A conceptual framework for the study of education is proposed and then used in case studies which examine education and educational change in Australia and Sweden. There are three main aspects to the study of education and educational change: (1) the social-structural framework, which includes both the structure of society as a whole and of the…

Beginning in September of 1968, a series of orientation meetings were conducted to establish a field test network and to introduce the Social Learning Curriculum to interested teachers. Phase 1 of the Curriculum was distributed and the system for evaluation was explained. During this period the project could determine the amount of time teachers…

The evaluation of Phase 2 consists of quantitative ratings and qualitative comments collected through the use of an Evaluation Booklet (124 returned). Quantitative data were gathered for the teaching procedures used for each lesson; they included ratings of materials, preparation, teacher information, purpose, and teacher actions. Qualitative data…

The evaluation of Phase 3 consists of quantitative ratings and qualitative comments collected and presented in the same manner as the data in the evaluation of Phase 2 (SO 000 157). In this case, however, only 100 Evaluation Booklets were returned. SO 000 138, SO 000 139, SO 000 140, SO 000 141, and SO 000 156 cover other facets of the curriculum…